Home›Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons›Country of Origin›FranceBrowse ByFranceFactsFranceSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1884 1FranceFilter Results9 entriesWeapon ClassAllMachine Gun (8)Rifle (1)Weapon FamilyAllGeneral-Purpose and Medium Machine Guns (1)Heavy Machine Guns (3)Light Machine Guns (4)Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns (1)Introduced EraAll1866 (1)1909 (1)1915 (1)1922 (1)1928 (1)1929 (1)1931 (2)1952 (1)ManufacturerAllBreda (1)Hotchkiss et Cie (3)Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault (1)Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (1)Vickers-Armstrongs (1)OperatorAllFinnish Defence Forces (1)French Armed Forces (4)Indian Army (1)Mexican Armed Forces (1)Soviet Armed Forces (1)Swedish Navy (1)United States Armed Forces (1)CaliberAll.30-06 Springfield (2).303 British (2)13.2x99mm Hotchkiss (2)13mm (1)7.5x54mm (2)7.5x55mm (1)7.5×54mm French (2)7.62x51mm NATO (1)7.92x57mm Mauser (1)7x57mm Mauser (1)8mm Lebel (2)8x50mmR Lebel (2)Service StatusAllIn Service (1)Out of Production (1)Retired (7)Wars Used InAllBosnian War (1)First Indochina War (2)Franco-Prussian War (1)Gulf War (1)Russian Civil War (2)Russo-Ukrainian War (1)Second Sino-Japanese War (1)Spanish Civil War (3)Syrian Civil War (1)Vietnam War (1)World War I (2)World War II (7)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 9AA-52 machine gunFranceBreda Model 1931 machine gunFranceChauchatFranceHotchkiss 13.2 mm machine gunFranceHotchkiss M1909 Benét-Mercié machine gunFranceHotchkiss M1922 machine gunFranceMitrailleuseFranceReibel machine gunFranceVickers-BerthierFranceSources1. Wikipedia: Machine guntier 2WikipediaMachine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionQuote, Machine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionThe first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.